![]() Idk I just think much more was going on with the first 2 seasons than the later two seasons. 14/15 felt like a whole season was compressed with how they were out of spores, went to a moon and grew some mushrooms, and then infiltrated Kronos. It's pretty obvious that episode 14/15 were ordered to wrap it all up. (cloak for klingons, and the spore drive for the federation.) The story also started with an incorrect mutiny (Burnham against Georgiou) and ended with a 'good' mutiny (Burnham against Evil Georgiou) I don't think they did it well. Overall I loved the season 1 structure of having two opposing but mostly equal forces each having a unique 'superweapon'. There's an optimism that even the most fanatical enemy could be convinced with the right information. Except that the added context/knowledge gave him the understanding that the two sides don't really have a reason to fight. Voq was such a true believer that he would undergo drastic change to infiltrate/hurt his enemy. Voq/Tyler had a similar duality with being klingon/human. It wasn't really until she became the mutineer that she started opening up. Even as first officer she was very closed off due to her upbringing. ![]() There's a duality between Burnham's human/vulcan side. They're conservative reactionaries against any or all change. "Remain Klingon." There's obvious parallels to the world with religious fundamentalism or the MAGA movement. That the Federation would be an existential crisis against klingon identity. He believed that change could only be bad and that they should return to fundamentalist Klingons. T'Kuvma's whole thing was that he believed the Federation was slowly assimilating Klingon Culture. ![]() The whole theme of the season being identity. ![]() I loved the messiness with Burnham/Tyler's relationship. I really loved Tyler and his existential crisis with identity. Really enjoyed the emotionally distant and messed up Burnham was before 'opening' up throughout the season. I liked the idea of a disgraced starfleet officer try to reluctantly redeem herself. Just characters that are 'broken' or get broken throughout the season. I know that I have a specific love for certain story tropes. The quality ranges from "meh" to "I can't believe that racist shit was allowed to air" and if TNG could recover from that I don't think you should judge Discovery based on its first 8 episodes. The federation being not as great as it pretends to be is kind of a theme throughout TNG and DS9.Īnd of course it's always good to remember how TNG started: Picard himself was perfectly fine with entire planets being wiped out because "prime directive, universal plan, blablabla", it took Data to make him listen to the pleas of a little girl for him to grumble and easily save her world in a few hours. The Maquis came into existence because the federation handed over some of their colonies to the cardassians and told the people living there to move, sucks to be you. Click to shrink.This is actually what the federation has always been, the evil Star Trek admiral is a trope for a reason, there are many episodes where it's the good main characters who have to stop some callous starfleet/federation plan or deal with its consequences.
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